Transnational Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia

This book examines contemporary Chinese transnational mobile practices with special focuses on the ethnographic exploration of the lives, experiences, views, and narratives of the Chinese mobile subjects in three ASEAN countries: Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, and their interactions with the ethnic Chinese communities in these countries. This book is based on recent and updated original ethnographic research carried out by leading scholars in China and Southeast Asia. The work addresses questions of integration and social embeddedness, interrogating the possibility of whether the transnational Chinese diaspora can be simultaneously embedded into two or more nation-states and geopolitical spheres. It contends that in moving in the transnational space, the Chinese diaspora may experience a strong yearning for a cultural home that may not be in one space for bicultural or multicultural diaspora. It also asks whether the transnational Chinese diaspora is motivated to negotiate cultural membership and social belonging in a new country. Shedding new light on the ways in which the transnational diaspora negotiates cultural membership to adapt to situational requirements, this volume is relevant to scholars researching in China studies, anthropology, international relations, and in Asian, Southeast and East Asian regional studies.

Presents updated ethnographic research on the Chinese diaspora in ASEAN Consists of contributions from leading scholars in China and Southeast Asian studies Questions integration and social embeddedness in the transnational diaspora in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore

Autorentext
Yos Santasombat is Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Chiang Mai University, and Senior Research Scholar for the Thailand Research Fund.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Transnational Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia: An Introduction.- Chapter 2: New Chinese Diaspora, Parallel Communities and Transnational Experience: A case study in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.- Chapter 3: Re-conceptualizing Chinese in Bangkok: Embeddedness, Mobilities and Folk Diplomacies.- Chapter 4: Reconsidering the Chinese Identity: Cultural Reproduction in Phuket Gastronomy.- Chapter 5: New Transnational Chinese Migrants in Malaysia.- Chapter 6: Identity, Politics, and Transnationalism: Deciphering New Chinese Diaspora in Singapore, 2010-2020